Cyprus to Gaza corridor will continue to operate, Cyprus president says

Cyprus's president has urged an immediate investigation into the killing of seven aid workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, saying the US-based charity they were members of was a "crucial partner" in efforts to get aid to the enclave by sea.

"We need to double down on efforts to get aid to Gaza," Nikos Christodoulides said, after a meeting with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

The Israeli strike hit a convoy carrying a World Central Kitchen team which had just unloaded more than 100 tons of food aid brought to Gaza via the maritime route from Cyprus. Citizens from Australia, Poland and Britain were among the victims.

Christodoulides said that the US-based World Central Kitchen charity is a "crucial partner" in the initiative, dubbed Amalthea, to get aid to the enclave by sea.

The seven aid workers were "traveling in a deconflicted zone...